Final Jeopardy: Fantastic Beasts (12-7-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/7/2020) in the category “Fantastic Beasts” was:

Symbols of strength in the Bible include behemoth & this horned creature, perhaps an extinct wild ox, which the KJV mentions 9 times

New champ, Katherine, a nonprofit executive from Chapel Hill, NC, has won $22,801. In Game 2, she takes on these 2 players: Amy, a career counselor from Bend, OR; and John, a communications manager from Los Angeles, CA.

Round 1 Categories: History: a Look Back – Trading Places – Empty Words – Bridges – Literary Video Games – That’s Twisted

John found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Bridges” under the $800 clue with 11 clues to go after it. He was in the lead with $3,800, $2,200 more than Amy in second place. He bet $800 and he was RIGHT.

Not everything in this city is 500 years old– the Constitution Bridge over the Grand Canal opened in 2008. show

WHAT IS VENICE?

John finished in the lead with $6,600. Amy was second with $3,800 and Katherine was last with $1,800. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Oxford’s Very Short Introductions – American Accessions – Planetary Extremes – Museums – Movie Goofs – “U” before “E”

John found the first Daily Double in “Planetary Extremes” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $9,000 now, $5,200 more than Amy in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

It’s the windiest planet, with storms like the Great Dark Spot observed by Voyager 2. show

WHAT IS NEPTUNE?

Katherine got the last Daily Double in the “Oxford” category under the $2,000 clue, with just one clue left after it. In third place with $7,800, she had $14,200 less than John’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT. That catapulted her into second place and put the kabosh on John’s chance for a runaway!

“A very short introduction to” him says that like Marx & Freud, this 18th c. economist’s work “is more invoked than it is read” show

WHO IS ADAM SMITH?

John finished in the lead with $22,000. Katherine was next with $16,400 and Amy was in third place with $9,800. No clues went uncovered.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS A UNICORN?
In the above video, they start talking about the unicorns around the 6:44 mark. The unicorn is mentioned in 5 books of the KJV Bible, as follows: twice in Numbers; once in Deuteronomy; twice in Job; 3 times in Psalms and once in Isaiah. Go to Bible Gateway to see all 9 passages. If you were to click on Other Translations for the Numbers 23:22 passage, you’d find that KJV is not the only one that uses “unicorn”; however, most bibles use “wild ox”.

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Amy thought it might be a manticore. She lost her $9,700 bet and finished with $100.

Katherine went with a Gorgon. She bet and lost it all.

John wrote down “the Beast” and indicated he intended to add something to that. He lost his $10,801 bet but won the game with the remaining $11,199. John Vigna is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

HISTORY: A LOOK BACK ($1000) In the 1820s he introduced a Cherokee syllabary of 85 characters

AMERICAN ACCESSIONS ($1200) The Newlands Resolution of 1898 brought these islands under formal U.S. control

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “American Business”

Last name of John, Daniel, Elisha & Edward, whose firm turned 200 in 2018 & has dressed 40 U.S. Presidents show

WHO ARE THE BROOKS BROTHERS?

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